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The file remains the same

The file remains the same

Last year, we guess BP tired of doing the industry’s statistical gathering for free. Whatever the reason, it spun out the division doing this work and the Energy Institute took over creating and publishing the Statistical Review of World Energy Data.

Monday, July 24th, 2023
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Energy efficiency and sustainable mining

The world will need the extraction of minerals to advance in the transition to renewable energy sources, generating a challenge to the mining sector.

Thursday, July 13th, 2023
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ANLA head wants more rigor in licensing processes

National business newspaper Portafolio recently interviewed National Environmental Licensing Agency head Rodrigo Negrete to understand his plans for the institution. He talked about having more rigor, decentralizing and alluded to formally including community feedback in the licensing process.

Thursday, January 12th, 2023
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SiB Colombia and GeoPark launch biodiversity data management training program for companies

Via a press release GeoPark announced a biodiversity training program in partnership with Colombia’s Biodiversity Information System (SiB Colombia), the CNAB water and biodiversity center of National Entrepreneurs’ Association ANDI and the Global Biodiversity Information Infrastructure (GBIF): The Corporate Management for Nature: Training Path to Biodiversity Data Mobility.

Thursday, January 12th, 2023
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Barranquilla port closed due to explosions and fire

The first alarms were at 4:15am Wednesday, December 21, from the port area of Compas, first a fire and then explosions. Several firepersons were injured and one was killed. The storage facilities of Bravo Petroleum are affected.

Wednesday, December 21st, 2022
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How do you stop?

How do you stop?

One of the key questions underlying the debate about the oil and gas industry in Colombia concerns when demand will peak and so for how long can public finances count on the flow of exports and tax revenues. Gustavo Petro’s “Illuminati” believe we all should stop using fossil fuels today and stop producing the stuff. More pragmatic observers think it too soon to (as some headlines put it) kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Recently the International Energy Agency (IEA) weighed in with its view, based on various climate change scenarios.

Monday, November 7th, 2022
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The world tries to increase oil production, while Colombia does the opposite

Many of the world’s largest countries are backtracking, or slowing down, on some of their plans to move away from fossil fuels. The Colombian government thinks differently.

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022
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Environmentalist says Colombia should not abandon fossil fuels

Danish environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg spoke about global warming scenarios and the decarbonization process.

Monday, September 26th, 2022
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Shrink your way to greatness

Among MinEnergia Irene Vélez’s many ‘faux pas’ is telling the Colombian Mining Association’s annual conference that developed countries should shrink their economies to reduce the load on the environment. This would also allow her and her cabinet colleagues to reduce the extractive sector – guilt free – because there would be less consumption.

Monday, September 19th, 2022
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LATAM promotes sustainable aviation fuel

We spoke to Maria Lara Estrada of LATAM Airlines Colombia and she told us that the secret to cleaner aviation is all in the process. Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is the airline industry’s solution to lowering air travel emissions. (This was published last week in our sister publication ePower Colombia. We know that many of you read both but we thought this article was important to be in the two databases, for those that do not subscribe to both and for future searches.)

Monday, September 5th, 2022
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